While details on this are still sketchy at this stage I am generally of the opinion that any news involving Japanese writer-director-comedian Kankuro Kudo is good news. I am also of the opinion that any news involving actor Tadanobu Asano is good news. So news that Kudo and Asano will soon be collaborating? Spectacular!
The project is titled Donju, the film adaptation of a crime comedy written by Kudo as a stage play - one that won Japan's Kunio Kishida Drama Award. Kudo will not be directing this himself but he did handle the adaptation from stage play to screen play himself before passing it off to first time feature director Hideaki Hosono, who has previously directed music videos for Kudo's band. The story? It's a mystery revolving around a young writer who keeps getting killed but keeps returning to life.
